Newer computers help and they are faster too. I should really get one but keep spending on other things, especially my dentist who seems determined to bankrupt me.

My computer is 6 years old now and 1 of the 3 sticks of Corsair ram was faulty. Because it was a super dooper matched set had to send the whole 3 stick kit overseas for RMA which would have left me with no ram so never bothered.

So only 4GB of ram for me instead of the 6GB it should be. Still manages OK on most projects except a few high memory ones. Other than occasional dust clean outs it's been on BOINC non-stop for the whole 6 years. With the aid of multiple graphics cards it's crunched over 400 million BOINC credits so a fair whack. Would have done a lot more except big power bills put the kybosh on intensive GPU crunching a few years ago.

Some news from Daniel Monroe at the Van Der Waerden Numbers project ...

The vdwnumbers.org BOINC project is running again. Version 31 uses half as much RAM (1 gigabyte for primes around 250 million). This seems to have fixed the computational errors that prevented you from getting credit, which I know was frustrating. I apologize that I did not respond to messages over the Summer. I hope you will consider giving the project another chance. We are now proving lower bounds for Van Der Waerden Numbers using primes above 250 million, compared with primes up to 10 million used for previous records. Happy crunching!

Some more news from Daniel Monroe at the Van Der Waerden Numbers project ...

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Sorry for my recent inactivity. A paper has been posted on arxiv for this project at https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.03301, and has been submitted for publication. I would like to thank all the volunteers who contributed their resources to this project. The project will no longer generate new work, but will incorporate any results received.